Run DHCP in background?

[Karl Hegbloom]

On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 14:19 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 03:54 -0800, Karl Hegbloom wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 08:56 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> > > The problem with asynchronous hardware detection is that you can no
> > > longer guarantee hardware is available at any particular point in the
> > > boot process.
> > > 
> > > e.g. the mouse driver being loaded before X starts.
> > 
> > This is why we need a dependency-based boot process.  It could work
> > something like a Makefile or the d-i menu sorting system.
> > 
> It wouldn't actually solve this particular case ... making X depend on a
> mouse would shoot those people without mice in the foot, as X would
> never start because the mouse driver never got loaded/

But in that case, wouldn't the X server need special configuration for a
keyboard driven mouse pointer or something?

In either case, then, this implies that there would need to be a way to
have something provide the required feature, or for the requirement to
be waived?

 If mouse exists, then require configured mouse...

Simpler:

 X server depends on modules hot plugged.